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The Twitter outlook – End of season update

2012 has come and gone, and this is the last update with the 2012 drivers and teams from the Formula One season. As thus, after this update expect a few names to disappear from the drivers table whilst HRT will disappear from the teams table.

In two milestones, Mark Webber has moved above 500,000 followers whilst in potentially the last check, Heikki Kovalainen has moved above 200,000 followers.

One change I forgot to make in the November end of month update was that Timo Glock should have been behind Romain Grosjean and Kamui Kobayashi, so apologies for that. For December, Kobayashi got in front of Grosjean but is now highly likely to drop out of the table altogether in 2013. Apart from that, the rest of the table is status quo.

The top three above are identical their position in the same table last month. It is worth noting though that the raw values are not directly comparable as December’s table is over five weeks compared with four weeks for November.

Nevertheless, it is unsurprising to see all of the raw numbers down and relatively close together now we are in the off-season. Narain Karthikeyan for whatever reason increased six positions, whilst his team-mate for 2012 dropped five places.

To milestones above is that Ferrari went above 400,000 and Red Bull went above 200,000. In a reversal of on the track, Marussia moved up above Caterham to finish 2012, albeit by a few hundred followers.

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